One of the teams contributing data to the ‘Day in the life Internet Project’ is the DIMES Distributed Scientific Research Project. This project is novel in that it asks users to download a Java client that monitors your internet traffic and reports data back to base. There are a number of really interesting end-user tools for data analysis for people using this client and from data collected from the client. Firefox users can install an add-on that places ping-back times for each link on a page next to the link – an unsual way of seeing the network while you are traversing it. I also found the Geo-Browse (powered by gmaps) visualization interesting – it maps Internet Connectivity onto a Google maps interface based on data collected by the client. Finally the latest tool developed by the DIMES project is the DIMES Visualizer - an application in Beta that I am unable to make work but which claims to ‘track the change of the internet over time with ease and clarity’.